Assessment of remote sensing techniques for habitat mapping in coastal dune ecosystems

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 64-75

  Shanmugam, Sanjeevi ^a   Lucas, Neil ^b   Phipps, Peter ^b   Richards, Andrew ^b   Barnsley, Mike ^c  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Dune systems; Habitat mapping; Mixture models; Sub pixel

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPACT AIRBORNE SPECTROGRAPHIC IMAGER; DUNE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

LIPARIS LOESELII; MARCHANTIOPHYTA; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 0037413205     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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